volunteer vegetables and squash

[zimmerstutzen]

My daughter had a pet pig that lived with our sheep. Thought it was a sheep. Well last early last November, a farm stand owner offered her a truck load of free pumpkins and squash. She brought that stuff home and parceled it out to the pig and his fellow sheep. This year we have volunteer pumpkins, squash, gourds etc coming up all over the place. There are a few pumpkins I already picked, some acorn squash growing next to the barn, at the top of the sheep pasture, down in the hollow, even in our back yard where we kept a few sheep for a week before we took them to market. One pumpkin in the back yard is already about 14 inches in diameter and is just starting to turn orange. However, there appears to be no butternut squash. The other volunteers are tomatoes. We had a fair supply of plum tomatoes growing next to the barn as well as some ground cherries which always come up here and there.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

So I had a dog that turned out to like cherry tomatoes.

The following season after the dog discovered tomatoes, I had cherry tomato plants coming up in various part of the back yard....,
I never knew that they would "migrate".....,

LD

 

[marlin39a]

My dog eats cherry tomatoes as well. Eats them up like it was roast beef.

 

[tenngun]

My boys like to follow me into the kitchen. They have hope that too often works that I will drop something they can grab real quick. But more then once I dropped cherry tomatoes and watch them grab and run. Only to get out in to the living room and drop it with a look of ‘I’ve been had’ on their faces.